Cameron family offers land for baseball stadium, but says don't use tax money to build it

WILMINGTON, NC (STARNEWSONLINE.COM) -- The Cameron family, who owns large tracts of property in New Hanover County, has offered to donate land to the city of Wilmington for a proposed baseball stadium.

But the family is against taxpayer money being used for the facility.

Smith Creek Land, LLC, the real estate company for the Cameron property, sent a letter to the city offering up to 35 acres off Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway for a proposed stadium. The city is considering a proposed $35 million stadium that would bring an Atlanta Braves minor league team, operated by Mandalay Baseball, to the Port City.

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So you have yet to realize that nothing in life is free? There is a cost even if you are not paying it. Where does the "free" food come from? The "free" land will cost something in the process. Do you have "free" transportation that runs on rainbows and smiles?

Like the welfare you collect is "free" money to you but those of us that work and pay taxes pay for you to live.

We the taxpayers are tired of supporting gimme bums. If you want it, get a job and earn it.

the free land still leaves construction costs of approximately $35 million to be covered.

The land doners make their sentiments clear, no use of taxpayer funds for construction.

Now again, I ask, where is the horn of plenty, filled with money, which will cover the debt service the developers would like to lay on the tax paying public?

And please be specific without reference to pie in the sky hopes and dreams.

And, please don't try to pull the Charlotte Knights into the discussion. The proposal submitted to the Charlotte Commissioners does not call upon the city or its property tax payers to gaurantee debt service or make debt payments.

And finally, do you actually own Real Estate within the city limits of Wilmington?

From a well respected Wilmington Family.
They're opinion that no taxpayer funds be used seems to be growing in popularity.
This is a generous offer.
But also a warning to city officials.
Now would be the time for Mandalay to step up and say we've secured a majority of the ball park costs.
Will they?
I doubt it